Software Piracy







What Is Software Piracy?

Software piracy is the the copyright infringement of software without cited permission from the copyright holder

--There are harsh laws and regulations surrounding software piracry and if violated seriously there can be large fines and if the operation is large scale, it can lead to jail time

--It is impossible for law enforcers to deal with all software piracy going on at the present due to the ease in which people are able to pirate software using either the techniques mentioned below or other ways. Even if software has copyright protection it is easy enough for people to download the software to overwrite the protection..

This can be done in many ways....
-- Creating a copy of the product and/or selling it.
-- Creating a copy and giving it to someone else
-- Creating a copy to serve as a backup
-- Renting the original software
-- Reselling the original software

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